Necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications...

The price of four persons 3AC from Howrah to Bangalore ticket is ₹29500 Named premium tatkal Normal fare 1500 rupees Amrit Kaal fare 7500 rupees Loot machale loot machale loot................

I run an NGO for tree plantation with 30 active volunteers - all within India. It had to be registered for transparency of funds, running a current account, receiving donations, auditing the spends and filing ITRs. RSS has 4 million estimated members, 88,000 shakhas (including many overseas), but is still not registered in India. There are no audits, no tracking. No one knows how much funds they receive, and how much they spend. They do not file any ITR. Why?

Banning Telegram altogether to prevent cheating in NEET is like using the IAF or something to safely transport question papers. Oh wait! They did that also.

There is a new scam by @IndiGo6E these days. When you web check-in, they don’t show any free seat options to select. If you skip seat selection and choose auto-assigned seating, they say you'll receive your boarding pass by email around 4 hours before departure. In my case, it never arrived. When I called customer care to ask why the boarding pass wasn't sent, they told me that auto-assigned seating can only be done 12 hours before departure. If it isn't assigned by then, the airport has to allocate the seat. They also said they have no way to contact the airport. So you are forced to reach the airport at least 1 hour early for physical check-in. If you arrive close to the check-in cutoff, they may refuse to issue a boarding pass and say you missed the check-in deadline. Technically, there are no FREE seats for web check-in. Everybody is out here scamming common people because apparently there’s nowhere for us to go and complain. Well done!

There's no water to drink in our country. India is already water stressed. Please stop this ethanol madness, @nitin_gadkari ji ! Focus on EVs.

One of the biggest scams in India is allotting centres of competitive exams in other states or 400–800 km away. Why can’t exam centres be allotted within the same state or city as the aspirants?

Wah! Kya YouTube thumbnail hai @ABPNews ka... 👏

BREAKING: Iran says the US has agreed to pay $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly to Iran as part of the deal Pakistan announced, alongside the release of $24 billion in frozen funds with $12 billion released before negotiations even start, per Mehr News. This directly contradicts Trump's & Vance's claim that no funds will be transferred to Iran at all. If Trump denies this is true, there never was a deal. If Trump confirms, the US has fully capitulated to Iran's demands.

What's happening in this country, @nitin_gadkari ji? You are introducing some fancy mix of fuel every day without any ecosystem support? Why is there no buy in from insurance companies or manufacturers? Use of E20 can lead to claims rejection. I don't want to use E20. Do I have a choice at the fuel station? Why are we being taken for a ride?

MEA needs a less clichéd and more serious script for the PM's visits abroad, one where he engages with his hosts on substantive issues, rather than his own accompanying troupe and Indians settled abroad.

Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive? Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members? Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now? This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.

India provides free premium entertainment daily. Never a dull day.

As weapons become more destructive & more expensive, future wars will end in stalemates. Only the side that manages battles outside the warzone better, in terms of propaganda and diplomacy, will enjoy the upper hand. It's visible in Ukraine, Op. Sindoor and now US-Israel & Iran

Even USA couldn’t defend killing of 3 Indian nationals like Bagree did for USA. For him it was a collateral damage & they themselves were responsible for it!! This is BJP IT Cell. These are the real anti-nationals. Only BJP & Modi’s image matters to them.

three days later, after immense criticism too

The irony is that the U.S. and India are "Major Defense Partners," conduct joint military exercises and cooperate across the Indo-Pacific. Yet the U.S. Navy has launched missile strikes against commercial tankers in international waters and killed Indian merchant mariners. The U.S. Navy had direct communications with the crews of the three foreign-flagged commercial tankers and was fully aware of their Indian nationality before launching the strikes that killed three crew members this week. This echoes March, when the U.S. Navy torpedoed and sank, in India's backyard, an Iranian frigate returning in a non-combat configuration after largely expending its munitions during an India-hosted multilateral naval exercise in which the U.S. also participated. And just as the U.S. Navy did not attempt to rescue the sailors from the sinking frigate, it likewise did not come to the aid of the surviving Indian crew members aboard the three tankers it struck. The rescue efforts were mounted instead by Omani authorities. It is noteworthy that the vessels Washington labels part of a "shadow fleet" transporting crude oil are largely linked to China and Russia. Yet since the Trump-ordered naval blockade began on April 13 without any basis in international law, the U.S. military has not struck a single tanker actively bound for, or coming directly from, either China or Russia. Striking such a vessel would transform a localized naval blockade into a direct geopolitical confrontation with Beijing or Moscow — a line the Trump administration has explicitly avoided crossing. Instead, it has employed kinetic force only against lower-profile vessels, including those carrying Indian crew members. Taken together, these incidents are a sad commentary on the state of India's foreign policy under the present government.

A Year After Ahmedabad Crash, the DGCA Unit Meant to Keep Planes Airworthy Is Half-Empty The Modi government had not made a single new hire in the unit, nor created any new post in it, since the air crash. #TWExclusive | @kunalpurohit✍️ thewire.in/government/exclus…

How to raise a kid: "My parents encouraged rational thinking. They never shut down discussion. They encouraged debate, perspective and logical reasoning. That shaped the way I approach public issues today."

The same judiciary that recently sentenced a YouTuber to 6 months in jail for his “tanashahi” remark, believes that calling women journalists r*ndi does not warrant an FIR because the abuse was in a form of a shayari. Then we wonder why we are dealing with a rape epidemic.

#Breaking A Sessions Court in Delhi has stayed the Magistrate Court's order for registration of an FIR against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for his allegedly "objectionable" tweets on Newslaundry and its journalists. The Sessions Judge says the words used by Iyer-Mitra are in the form of shayari, but no individual has been specifically named. @Iyervval @MnshaP @newslaundry